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Luke Smith

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Kirby’s affirmative action program unnecessary, unjust

Calling last year’s low number of tenure offers to women “a matter of some emergency,” Dean of the Faculty William


How Undergraduates Get Shafted

Harvard students present and future should not expect many significant improvements in the quality of undergraduate education here. The oft-trumpeted


Senior Gift Shenanigans

Harvard’s Senior Gift Committee thinks that graduating students should be hectored until they fork over some cash. Indeed, putting the


A Harvard Boy in Love

Risking an unmanly show of feelings here, I must confess that I have a crush on Ann Coulter. Coulter is,


A People's Calendar for Harvard

Students would probably view with skepticism any changes proposed by an administration which (with varying degrees of subtlety) has to


Bring Back the Dead White Men

After four years at Harvard, students can graduate into the company of educated men and women without knowledge of Aristotle,


Brave New Foreign Policy

While standing up to a grave threat to world peace in the Middle East, the Bush administration proposed a new


Dems Need a New Battle Plan

After the Democrats lost the 2000 presidential election, Clinton advisors Paul Begala and James Carville published “A Battle Plan for